About Us
Talpiottomb.com and Talpiottomb.org are being sponsored by JTERP (Jesus Tomb Education and Research Project).
The mission of JTERP is to help answer the following question: Is the Talpiot tomb the family tomb of Jesus?
The mission of JTERP will be pursued in three ways.
First, using the www.talpiottomb.com site, JTERP will present materials for the purpose of educating the general public
as to what is known and being debated regarding this question.
Second, JTERP will create an association called the Friends of the Talpiot Tomb at www.talpiottomb.org. See Why_Join
on the main menu for a complete description of the Friends association.
Third, JTERP will provide support to research and analysis efforts that attempt to expand the knowledge base related to
this question. As these efforts yield new information it will be reviewed on these sites. A significant portion of member
dues will be used to fund these research and analysis efforts.
Jerry Lutgen will act as the editor for both sites. Mr. Lutgen is an established scientist and business executive with a
long-standing interest in New Testament history. Mr Lutgen's biography is available below.
You may email Mr. Lutgen at: jlutgen@jterp.com
You may reach JTERP member service at: adam@jterp.com
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Biography for Jerry Lutgen
Experience
Mr. Lutgen, has extensive experience in the application of health informatics and applied statistics to a broad range of
health care problems and opportunities. He gained this experience both as a company executive and as an applied
information scientist.
For the past five years prior to forming JTERP, Mr. Lutgen served as the owner and President of Applied HealthWorks
(AHW), a company whose mission was to apply advanced health informatics methods in the pursuit of solutions to the
health issues affecting the lives of millions of people. AHW designed and developed products for the health and fitness
consumer market. AHW also housed the health informatics consulting activities of Mr. Lutgen.
For the previous fifteen years Mr. Lutgen was employed by the UnitedHealth Group, primarily within its Ingenix
subsidiary and its predecessor organizations. UHG is a leading health and well-being services provider, providing
services to tens of millions of persons.
Ingenix (now part of Optum) delivers a broad range of “health intelligence” products and services to all of the key
constituencies in the health care marketplace. Ingenix is now a company with annual revenues
well in excess of one billion dollars.
Mr. Lutgen held a variety of executive positions at Ingenix, including VP, Information Management and VP, Health
Informatics. He was a member of the team that founded Ingenix and during his tenure at Ingenix he was very active in
helping the company grow through
acquisitions as well as through new product research and development.
He also was part of the team that started a health and well-being services company in Europe (UnitedHealth Europe)
His role was to lead the development of “health intelligence” tools that enables the National Health Service of England to
implement a new care management process for high-risk patients.
Previously, Mr. Lutgen worked at the Pillsbury company in consumer foods R&D, where he was responsible for the
Human Sensory Testing, Statistics and Technical Computing Labs. At Pillsbury Mr. Lutgen was also a leader in the
early adoption of Total Quality Management
methods.
Mr. Lutgen also worked at Medtronic, a leading developer and supplier of advanced medical devices. At Medtronic, Mr
Lutgen held a variety of technical and analytic positions in new product R&D, most notably in the management and
analysis of large-scale clinical trials.
Education
Mr. Lutgen received his bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Research Methods and a master of science degree in Health
Informatics/Applied Statistics from the University of Minnesota.
Patents
Mr. Lutgen holds three patents in the area of health risk measurement and management.